Jens Agerström

Jens Agerström is professor of psychology. The main fields of research are social psychology and work- and organizational psychology. Jens earned his PhD from Lund University in 2009 and has held a tenure at Linnaeus University since 2012.

Research

Agerström's research often adopts a multidisciplinary approach. He collaborates with researchers in economics, health care sciences, and medicine.

Primary research focus lies on discrimination in the labor market and the health care system, based on factors such as ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status. A central theme of this research is the role of implicit and explicit bias in discrimination. To understand how such biases play out in organizational settings, the research combines methods from both social psychology and behavioral economics.

A related line of research examines the effectiveness of different interventions aimed to increase diversity within organizations and in conjunction with recruitment.

Another area of interest concerns social norms and their impact in various contexts, such as charitable giving, vaccination intentions, and parental leave.

An additional line of research concerns effects of physical pain (both acute and chronic) on various forms cognition (e.g., abstract thinking).

One final example of research concerns psychological distance (e.g., temporal distance) and its impact on moral judgment and behavior.

My research groups

My completed research projects

Project: Equal health care The project studied equality within cardiac arrest care with consideration to ethnicity, age, gender, and socioeconomic background.

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Israelsson, J., Carlsson, M., Agerström, J. (2023). A more conservative test of sex differences in the treatment and outcome of in-hospital cardiac arrest. Heart & Lung. 58. 191-197.
Status: Published
Sinclair, S., Agerström, J. (2023). Do Social Norms Influence Young People’s Willingness to Take the COVID-19 Vaccine?. Health Communication. 38 (1). 152-159.
Status: Published
Gunnarsson, H.E.M., Agerström, J. (2023). Thinking abstractly about one’s physical pain : can abstraction reduce sensitivity to painful stimuli?. Nordic Psychology. 1-12.
Status: Epub ahead of print
Sinclair, S., Nilsson, A., Agerström, J. (2023). Judging Job Applicants by Their Politics : Effects of Target–Rater Political Dissimilarity on Discrimination, Cooperation, and Stereotyping. The Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 11 (1). 75-91.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Carlsson, M., Erenel, A. (2023). The effect of social gender norms on parental leave uptake intentions : Evidence from two survey experiments on prospective fathers and mothers. Applied Economics.
Status: Epub ahead of print
Strinic, A., Carlsson, M., Agerström, J. (2022). Occupational stereotypes : professionals' warmth and competence perceptions of occupations. Personnel review. 51 (2). 603-619.
Status: Published
Heath, A.J., Carlsson, M., Agerström, J. (2022). Is employer collection of diversity data attractive to potential job seekers? Ethnicity and sex differences and a UK-Sweden comparison. Personnel review.
Status: Epub ahead of print
Sinclair, S., Nilsson, A., Agerström, J. (2022). Tolerating the Intolerant : Does Realistic Threat Lead to Increased Tolerance of Right-Wing Extremists?. The Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 10 (1). 35-47.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Carlsson, M., Bremer, A., Herlitz, J., Rawshani, A., et al. (2022). Treatment and survival following in-hospital cardiac arrest : does patient ethnicity matter?. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 21 (4). 341-347.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Carlsson, M., Bremer, A., Herlitz, J., Israelsson, J., et al. (2021). Discriminatory cardiac arrest care? : Patients with low socioeconomic status receive delayed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and are less likely to survive an in-hospital cardiac arrest. European Heart Journal. 42 (8). 861-869.
Status: Published
Sinclair, S., Agerström, J. (2021). “If others are honest, I will be too” : Effects of social norms on willingness to fake during employment interviews. Personnel Assessment and Decisions. 7 (1).
Status: Published
Gunnarsson, H.E.M., Agerström, J. (2021). Is clinical, musculoskeletal pain associated with poorer logical reasoning?. Pain Reports. 6 (1).
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Carlsson, M., Strinic, A. (2021). Intersected groups and discriminatory everyday behavior : Evidence from a lost email experiment. Social Psychology. 52 (6). 351-361.
Status: Published
Strinic, A., Carlsson, M., Agerström, J. (2021). Multiple group membership : warmth and competence perceptions in the workplace. Journal of business and psychology. 36. 903-920.
Status: Published
Sinclair, S., Agerström, J. (2020). Does expertise and thinking mode matter for accuracy in judgments of job applicants’ cognitive ability?. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 61 (4). 484-493.
Status: Published
Gunnarsson, H.E.M., Agerström, J. (2020). Pain and social cognition : Does pain lead to more stereotyped judgments based on ethnicity and age?. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 20 (3). 611-621.
Status: Published
Lindersson, L., Guntell, L., Carlsson, R., Agerström, J. (2019). Reassessing the impact of descriptive norms on charitable giving. International Journal of Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Marketing. 24 (1). 1-6.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Stening, K., Axman, O. (2019). Pain here and now : physical pain impairs transcendence of psychological distance. Journal of Pain Research. 12. 961-968.
Status: Published
Årestedt, K., Allert, C., Djukanovic, I., Israelsson, J., Schildmeijer, K., et al. (2018). Health-related quality of life among in-hospital cardiac arrest survivors in working age. Resuscitation. 130 (s1).
Status: Published
Gunnarsson, H.E.M., Agerström, J. (2018). Clinical pain, abstraction, and self-control : being in pain makes it harder to see the forest for the trees and is associated with lower self-control. Journal of Pain Research. 11. 1105-1114.
Status: Published
Carlsson, R., Agerström, J., Williams, D., Burns, G.N. (2018). A Primer on the benefits of differential treatment analysis when predicting discriminatory behavior. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology. 14 (3). 193-198.
Status: Published
Al-Dury, N., Rawshani, A., Israelsson, J., Strömsöe, A., Aune, S., et al. (2017). Characteristics and outcome among 14,933 adult cases of in-hospital cardiac arrest : A nationwide study with the emphasis on gender and age.. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 35 (12). 1839-1844.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Gunnarsson, H.E.M., Stening, K. (2017). Does physical pain impair abstract thinking?. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 29 (6). 748-754.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Carlsson, R., Nicklasson, L., Guntell, L. (2016). Using descriptive social norms to increase charitable giving : The power of local norms. Journal of Economic Psychology. 52. 147-153.
Status: Published
Gunnarsson, H.E.M., Grahn, B., Agerström, J. (2016). Increased deep pain sensitivity in persistent musculoskeletal pain but not in other musculoskeletal pain states. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 13. 1-5.
Status: Published
Carlsson, R., Agerström, J. (2016). A closer look at the discrimination outcomes in the IAT literature. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 57 (4). 278-287.
Status: Published
Gunnarsson, H.E.M., Grahn, B., Agerström, J. (2016). Impaired psychomotor ability and attention in patients with persistent pain : a cross-sectional comparative study. Journal of Pain Research. 9. 825-835.
Status: Published
Agerström, J. (2014). Why does height matter in hiring?. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 52. 35-38.
Status: Published
Carlsson, R., Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, M., Rooth, D. (2014). Testing for Backlash in Hiring : A Field Experiment on Agency, Communion, and Gender. Journal of Personnel Psychology. 13 (4). 204-214.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, R. (2013). Look at yourself! : Visual perspective influences moral judgment by level of mental construal. Social Psychology. 44 (1). 42-46.
Status: Published
Nordhall, O., Agerström, J. (2013). Future-oriented people show stronger moral concerns. Current Research in Social Psychology. 19. 52-63.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Björklund, F. (2013). Why people with an eye toward the future are more moral: The role of abstract thinking. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 35 (4). 373-381.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, R. (2012). Emotions in time : Moral emotions appear more intense with temporal distance. Social cognition. 30 (2). 181-198.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, R., Rooth, D. (2012). Warm and Competent Hassan = Cold And Incompetent Eric : The Harsh Equation of Real-life Hiring Discrimination. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 34 (4). 359-366.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Rooth, D. (2011). The role of automatic obesity stereotypes in real hiring discrimination. Journal of Applied Psychology. 96 (4). 790-805.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, R. (2011). Gender differences in implicit moral orientation associations : The justice and care debate revisited. Current Research in Social Psychology. 17. 10-18.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Allwood, C.M. (2010). The Influence of Temporal Distance on Justice and Care Morality. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 51 (1). 46-55.
Status: Published
Rooth, D., Agerström, J. (2009). Implicit Prejudice and Ethnic Minorities : Arab-Muslims in Sweden. International journal of manpower. 30 (1/2). 43-55.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Björklund, F. (2009). Moral concerns are greater for temporally distant events and are moderated by value strength. Social cognition. 27 (2). 261-282.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Björklund, F. (2009). Temporal Distance and Moral Concerns: Future Morally Questionable Behavior is Perceived as More Wrong and Evokes Stronger Prosocial Intentions. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 31 (1). 49-59.
Status: Published
Rooth, D., Agerström, J., Carlsson, R., Ekehammar, B. (2008). Svenska arbetsgivares implicita stereotyper av arabiska muslimer och överviktiga. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. 12 (3/4). 239-256.
Status: Published
Agerström, J., Möller, K., Archer, T. (2006). Moral reasoning: : The influence of affective personality, dilemma content and gender. Social behavior and personality. 34 (10). 1259-1276.
Status: Published

Conference paper (Refereed)

Sinclair, S., Agerström, J. (2019). Does expertise and thinking mode matter for accuracy in judgments of job applicants’ cognitive ability?. Presented at IAREP-SABE 2019.
Carlsson, R., Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, M., Rooth, D. (2015). Backlash and hiring : A field experiment on agency, communion, and gender. .
Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, R., Rooth, D. (2013). Warm and Competent Hassan = Cold and Incompetent Eric: A harsh equation of real-life hiring discrimination. .
Agerström, J. (2011). Implicit obesity bias predicts real hiring discrimination in the labor market. Annual meeting of The Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Agerström, J., Björklund, F. (2009). Temporal distance increases moral blame: The meditational role of attribution bias. .
Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Allwood, C.M. (2007). The influence of temporal distance on moral judgment and reasoning. .

Chapter in book (Refereed)

Agerström, J., Björklund, F. (2013). Temporal construal and moral motivation. Handbook of Moral Motivation: Theories, Models, Applications. Rotterdam, Sense Publishers. 181-196.